A day after the blast in Delhi that killed 13 persons, the police on Tuesday asked residential societies in Gurugram to submit a list of residents from Jammu and Kashmir and foreign citizens living there.

Madan Lal, the station house officer of Gurugram city police station, confirmed that the notices had been sent to societies. “We issued a direction after the Delhi blast,” Lal told Scroll.

Vishnu Prasad, assistant police commissioner for Gurugram city, said that they had been “instructed to do this”.

“We are inquiring about who has come from where and for how long they have been staying here,” Prasad told Scroll. “We are doing this for people from Jammu and Kashmir as well as foreigners. It is for security purposes.”

It is a routine check, the assistant police commissioner added.

On Monday evening, a car exploded near gate number one of the Red Fort metro station. While no details have been officially provided yet about what caused the blast, the police have filed a case under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act and the Explosives Act.

Hours before the car exploded, the Jammu and Kashmir Police had said on Monday that it had cracked an “inter-state and transnational terror module”. Over the last three weeks, the police of the Union Territory arrested seven persons as part of its investigations.

Among those were two doctors from Kashmir: Dr Adeel Ahmad Rather who works at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur and Dr Muzamil Shakeel who is employed at a hospital in Faridabad, Haryana.

Jammu and Kashmir police officials, who did not wish to be identified, told Scroll that another Kashmiri doctor working at the same hospital in Faridabad, has been missing since the arrests began.

The Jammu and Kashmir Police’s three-week probe and searches across Kashmir, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh led to the recovery of a “massive cache of arms, ammunition and explosives…”

As of Wednesday, the security agencies in Jammu and Kashmir and Delhi had not officially linked the busted module with the Red Fort blast.

Last week, the Jammu and Kashmir Police launched a widespread crackdown against what it called the “terror ecosystem” and targeted “Over Ground Workers (OGWs), UAPA and PSA [Public Safety Act] accused persons, sympathisers, and relatives of killed and active terrorists, particularly in areas where encounters had earlier taken place”.

The Public Safety Act is a preventive detention law unique to the Union Territory.

The police have also detained relatives of dozens of Jammu and Kashmir residents who are alleged to be operating from Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. During the crackdown, more than 1,500 people were detained for questioning across Kashmir Valley.

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